Vincent Carpentier

Vincent Carpentier is a Reader in History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. His comparative research on the historical relationship between educational systems, Kondratiev cycles and social change is located at the interface of history of education and political economy. His research explores the long-term connections and tensions between funding, equity and quality in higher education at both national and global levels. His publications include Système éducatif et performances économiques au Royaume-Uni: 19ème et 20ème siècles (L’Harmattan, 2001) and Global Inequalities and Higher Education, Whose Interests Are We Serving? (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010 - co-edited with Elaine Unterhalter) and articles in various academic journals. He is an associate editor of the London Review of Education. He is a member of the UCL Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES), the UCL International Centre for Historical Research in Education (ICHRE) and the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE). He is responsible for CGHE Project 7, ‘A historical lens on higher education staffing: UK and France’ and a Co-Investigator on Project 8, ‘Local and global public good of higher education: 10 nation study’.